Must confess, I'm a regular visitor to medieval English churches.
That's because I like to see the architecture and wall paintings in particular.
https://www.seeingthepast.com/blog/coventry-doom-painting
Sinners repent. Tomorrow could be too late.
Made another visit to South Newington yesterday, home of my favourite church.
https://www.southnewington.co.uk/doom/introduction-to-doom/
I suppose we might thank the iconoclastic (in its original sense) Roundheads for whitewashing the church paintings. They preserved at least some examples despite themselves. It's a question whether any of those paintings would have survived to the present if not for being obliterated (as they thought) by those self-righteous muppets.
As a geocacher I visited plenty of English churches. Many of them I didn't get inside, but I recall one little church in West Sussex or Hampshire that claimed to have the oldest church painting of St George in England. It was worth the visit, though the purpose of getting there was the geocache. Saw several other recovered medieval wall paintings over my years of visiting England. Most of them aren't particularly vivid anymore, but you can get a sense of what they must have looked like.
Lark and I sought out and pestered the church warden for All Saints' Ockham (https://www.ockhamchurch.org.uk/history-1) to let us inside to view their stained glass window of William of Ockham (Late 20th century, though the church itself goes back about 1000 years or so). They also had a small bronze statue of him inside.
Nobody is going to create a doom painting these days, because the bible has been reinterpreted.
Within my lifetime the divine message all about the fear of god is now changed to the love of god.
Had a drive out in the rain yesterday to revisit this one.
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/22/a-very-public-archaeology-of-death-st-mary-magdalenes-croome-dabitot/
Nearby this church is quite breath taking.
https://www.facebook.com/PirtonChurch/?locale=en_GB
A few days ago, set in the Cotswolds at the end of a single track dead end lane, this one also had wall paintings.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/oxenton-church-gloucestershire-england.html?sortBy=relevant
That guy Jesus was great at keeping stone masons employed for centuries.